Democrats have long been finding ways to circumvent actual democracy to get what they want. They have shown it in indicting Donald Trump on ridiculous, baseless charges in efforts to stop him from running in 2024. They showed off their abilities in 2020 as well, with the mail-in ballot chaos and counting votes behind closed doors, with no Republican supervision.
Whether you want to call it a cheated election or not is entirely up to you, but the reasoning for believing it was is at least notable. From ballot harvesting, to registering dead people as voters, they pulled out the stops in 2020. Part of that has been their 'Get Out the Vote' campaigns, urging minorities and other potential undecides to vote Democrat. Republicans have mostly stayed away from the idea, but now, the GOP is fighting fire with fire.
Matt Kittle of The Federalist says Conservatives are starting to finally wake up.
"We have seen it in California...their GOP has said 'if we cannot beat them, do what they are doing...and that is ballot harvesting," he says. "California made it legal in 2016...Republicans there decided this is a tactic that has been extremely successful in left laden California."
New Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, made it known in her speech in Houston recently that Republicans are starting to do the same things.
But the GOP is a party of religion and morals mostly, excluding a few obviously. But many are beginning to see the light, and that to fight in the dark means having a few tricks up your sleeve.
"We are starting to see a change from Conservatives...if you want to continue to lose, you will probably continue doing what you have done, which is not what the Left has been doing," he says.
As mentioned, Republicans never like breaking rules, or trying to fight unfairly. They usually try to toe the line and stay on the right side of integrity. But their hands have been forced by years of Democrat bullying.
Conservatives though still carry that big flaw with them.
"They still struggle to believe...that someone could be acting so outside the law, or ethics," he says.
Besides this article, you will very rarely see the word 'Democrat' and 'ethics' in the same sentence.
Again, Republicans are slowly coming around to the idea of unethical rock fighting. But it is still taking a bit of time.
"If you think suddenly, they are going to be grounded in election integrity, and all these things Conservatives seem to support...then you are badly deluded," he says. "The Left never stops, and the Right needs to engage in the same way."